Re: Standards for generating ChangeLog from git log

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 17/05/20 18:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'd appreciate if someone could list the current names of the scripts that 
> we'd like to mention in the manual.  (There seems to be another one discussed 
> on the GCC list, but maybe it's the same one, I cannot tell.)
> 
> The discrepancies you see are due to the long time tha passed since the 
> original discussions; I started working on this text in January.
> 

The gnulib script is:

${gnulib_dir}/build-aux/vcs_to_changelog.py

There's a note about changelog generation in the glibc wiki, hopefully
that'll help in your work:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#First_Tag_.5BREQUIRED.5D_.28At_release.29

gcc has taken a different path; it incorporates ChangeLog entries into
the git commit message and the script then parses the commit message to
generate ChangeLog entries.  It is a different project here:

https://github.com/marxin/gcc-changelog

Cheers,
Siddhesh